The article also says he was making Hero, which is a masterpiece IMO.
true Hero is such a beautiful piece of artwork in so many dimensions. its the movie I watched the most often. 》5 times
That’s ok. Those two are forgotten, while the other is actively despised.
The Matrix Reloaded was ok. It's Revolutions that was actively awful.
They have great fight scenes though, and I would still enjoy a re-watch. I just think about them as fan fictions and not the real sequels of Matrix.
They were ambitious attempts to build a mythic world but fell short- but they also work as nice early 2000s time capsules the same way the original film is a time capsule of the year 1999.